Melanie Onufrieff is in her third season as an assistant
coach with the Tigers. Onufrieff came to Clemson after spending the seven years
as the head women's rowing coach at Columbia University. During her last two
years with the Lions, Columbia achieved its first ever team national ranking,
finishing as high as 19th in 2010.

Prior to
joining the staff at Columbia in 2005, she spent six years as the head women's
rowing coach at Cornell, beginning in 1999. Her 2002 varsity eight was chosen
for the NCAA Championships, where it finished 14th. That performance, combined
with its regular-season and Sprints showings, earned Onufrieff Mid-Atlantic
Region Coach of the Year honors from the CRCA.

Onufrieff
spent two years as an assistant coach at Princeton from 1997-1998. Her first
novice eight took the silver medal at the 1997 Eastern Sprints. In 1998, the
Tigers' first novice eight won gold at the Sprints. Once again, she was EAWRC
Novice Coach of the Year.

Onufrieff
began her full-time coaching career in 1995 at Rutgers as the novice women's
coach. Her first novice eight won a silver medal at the Sprints and a bronze at
the IRA Regatta. She was voted the EAWRC Novie Coach of the Year.

Onufrieff
spent the summers of 2001, 2006, 2007 and 2008 as an assistant coach with the
United States National Rowing Team. She was in charge of the silver medal
winning 4- in 2008 at the Senior World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria
and the Gold Medal winning Under 23 Women's 4X in Strathclyde, Scotland in
2007.

A native of
Berkeley, CA, Onufrieff was a three-year letter winner from the University of
Pennsylvania. She was a two-year rowing captain, and was twice selected for the
Hope Barnes Memorial Award for Excellence in Rowing. She also twice earned
selection to the Academic All-Ivy League Team. Onufrieff graduated from Penn in
1994 with a B.A. in biology.